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CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy - Pope Benedict XVI said Sunday that he was “deeply sorry” about the angry reaction to his recent remarks about Islam, which he said came from a text that didn’t reflect his personal opinion.“These (words) were in fact a quotation from a Medieval text which do not in any way express my personal thought,” Benedict told pilgrims at his summer palace outside Rome.The pope sparked the controversy when, in a speech Tuesday to university professors during a pilgrimage to his native Germany, he cited the words of a Byzantine emperor who characterized some of the teachings of the Prophet Muhammad, Islam’s founder, as “evil and inhuman.” “At this time I wish also to add that I am deeply sorry for the reactions in some countries to a few passages of my address at the University of Regensburg, which were considered offensive to the sensibility of Muslims,” the pope said Sunday.Muslim leaders in the Mideast gave mixed reactions to the pontiff’s apology.Mahmoud Ashour, the former deputy of Cairo’s Al-Azhar Mosque, the Sunni Arab world’s most powerful institution, told Al-Arabiya TV immediately after the pope’s speech that, “It is not enough. He should apologize because he insulted the beliefs of Islam. He must apologize in a frank way and say he made a mistake.”Mohammed al-Nujeimi, a professor at the Institute of Judicial and Islamic Studies in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, also criticized the pope’s statement.“The pope does not want to apologize. He is evading apology and what he said today is a repetition of his previous statement,” he told Al-Arabiya TV.

The thing that gets me is when an Arab shot Pope John-Paul no one said anything.And Islam is claiming to be a peaceful religion. They already have shot and killed a nun who cared for orphan Arab children and have set a number of churches on fire.

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There is nothing tolerent about this religion, Right now despite the pr Islam isn't the fastest growing religion. The pressure is on to keep the fold. And like any other desperate cult, be it Christianity there is a last resort to violence. This will be the making of the next war for sure.One just needs to look at Africa to see the truth of this peaceful religion. Saying that Christianity has it's moments too. Religions need to be taxed!

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